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...ing to settle for ephemeral beauty and a large number of poets, sculptors, painters and artists of all types attempted to create a type of beauty th... ...ant birth that has been celebrated for a long time by poets, sculptors and painters. But the birth of Ulysses before Nausicaa is a far more importa... ...f one embraces a concept of love that is not a sentiment (and worse yet a romantic one) nor simply passion, but is based on a decision. To learn mo... ...nna and Moscow. I also thank them for having created training seminars for Russian therapists and for those from the Baltic countries in their Insti... ...of the PPL in Moscow, who published my book on Existential Anthropology in Russian and who has created a website on Sophia-Analysis in Russian and E...

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...tood that her wish for it was just that. Hers was the ingenuous voice of a romantic who believed that he brought the world to her for he was the new w... ...d out of the window and withdrew back into himself. He once again began to romanticize those cars of laborers with their families. It would be there, ... ...never quite built after the 1996 financial meltdown, once backstage with a Russian ballerina after a performance of Swan Lake at the Thai Cultural Cen... ...ion. He would never equal the great artists of the world and of prostitute painters he was one of myriad in contemporary Southeast Asian art alone. Th... ...nd when you live somewhere your habits are embedded in it There is nothing romantic or visceral: just day to day life." "Don't you like it?" "It has i... ...tch pad, charcoal pencils, an easel, and other material items so vital for painters obsessed in depicting the inner world that was demotically and mis...

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...had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of which three, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull, had been performed in England. Tolstoy, in his Fruits of Enlig...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Ele... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania S... ...down later into the types of beauty imagined by the previous generation of painters. They took the only part of our society in which there was leisure... ...staring at her in wide-eyed amazement]. Bless you, dear Mrs Hushabye, what romantic ideas of business you have! Poor dear Mangan isn’t a bit like that...

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...ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett A Penn ... ...sity. 3 Turgenev ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett LONDON:... ...T o the English reader On the Eve is a charmingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian household, with a delicate analysis of a young girl’s soul; but to ... ... stand in the spring in the forest, in a green glade, when I can fancy the romantic notes of Oberon’s fairy horn’ (Bersenyev was a little ashamed when... ...er, knows her not; nei- ther Canaletto nor Guardi (to say nothing of later painters) has been able to convey the silvery tenderness of the atmo- spher...

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...Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...versity. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend INTRODUCTION T urgenev was the first writer who w... ...v’s powerful and antipathetic fellow-novelist, Dostoievsky, and many other Russian writers: but as he was the greatest artist of them all, his individ... ...ged to his temperament. He suffered in youth, and suffered badly, from the romantic malady of his century, and that other malady of Russia, both expre... ...stess. “Mariana Vikentievna,” he began, “is still full of the ideals … the romanticism of youth … which … in time—” “Heaven, I was unjust to myself,” ... ...clares, ‘quite unlike Western art! ‘ Then he raves about our insignificant painters too! ‘At one time, I bowed down before Europe and the Italians,’ h...

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...o exceptions, are all alike; he has drawn them all from the same model, as painters say. They are, every one of them, descended from Clarissa Harlowe.... ...se to his friend’s side as a soldier might keep by a comrade on the frozen Russian plains. During those early days of his acquaintance, he noticed, no... ...agedy, and Lamartine the poetry of meditation.” “Are you a ‘Classic’ or a ‘Romantic’?” inquired Lousteau. Lucien’s astonishment betrayed such complete... ...ory, and ink is shed in torrents. The odd part of it is that the Royalist- Romantics are all for liberty in literature, and for repealing laws and con... ...ing Lucien’s dismay at the prospect of choosing between two banners. “Be a Romantic. The Romantics are young men, and the Classics are pedants; the Ro... ...little Florville, are you cured already of your fancy? They told me that a Russian prince had carried you off.” “Who carries off women in these days” ... ...he management. The manager will go down on his knees to pray for some more Russian princes,” Florville continued, laugh- ing; “the forfeit money was s...

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...said I, ‘to take anything serious in society nowadays would be like making romantic love to an actress.’—’What a shame- less betrayal! It was delibera... ...mpany used to meet.” “The knell of the highest society is tolling,” said a Russian Prince. “Do you hear it? And the first stroke is your modern word l... ...ord of its own which epitomizes and depicts it.” “You are right,” said the Russian, who had come to make a literary reputation in Paris. “The explanat... ...n as to produce the magical effect of the ‘lost profile,’ so dear to great painters, by which the cheek catches the high light, the nose is shown in c... ...esse de Cadignan. “ And in France taste is more than cleverness,” said the Russian. “This woman’s cleverness is the triumph of a purely plastic art,” ...

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...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ... pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o’er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘T is th... ... Which perish in the rest, but in them were Inherent— what we mortals call romantic, And always envy, though we deem it frantic. This is in othe... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...g of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing but in hue, ... ...ut extremely winning, With the most regulated charms of feature, Which painters cannot catch like faces sinning Against proportion—the wild st... ...strange adventures Had gone before him, and his wars and loves; And as romantic heads are pretty painters, And, above all, an Englishwoman’s... ... gone before him, and his wars and loves; And as romantic heads are pretty painters, And, above all, an Englishwoman’s roves Into the excursiv...

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...town. Some of our party went to a Spanish venta, as a more con- venient or romantic place of residence than an English house; others made choice of th... ...is the only building about the Rock which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protesta... ...twinkling white houses of the opposite shore. Then the place becomes quite romantic:it is too dark to see the dust on the dried leaves; the cannon-bal... ...ing up to the steamer’s side to convey us travellers to shore. There were Russian schooners and Greek brigs lying in this little bay; dumpy little wi... ...he deuce knows why, for what good can the En- glish, or the French, or the Russian party get out of such a bankrupt alliance as this?) perpetually pul... ...and smoked cool pipes on his house-top, as we looked over the hill and the Russian palace to the water, and the Seraglio gardens shining 58 Notes on ... ...ba- zaars with their barbaric splendour. There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo, and materials for a whole Acad- emy of them. I never saw... ...have not been able to destroy. —No: be that work for great geniuses, great painters, great poets!This quill was never made to take such flights; it co...

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... in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer th... ...have not lost the sense of the value for me, at the time, of the admirable Russian’s testimony to my not needing, all superstitiously, to try and perf... ...othing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered pi- azza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...s for three months at Neufchatel with a French bonne who had eloped with a Russian nobleman staying at the same 48 The Portrait of a Lady hotel—even ... ...th year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of look... ... he pointed out its principal ornaments and mentioned the 103 Henry James painters and subjects. Miss Stackpole looked at the pic- tures in perfect s... ...d stopped at the hotel by chance), after their bonne had gone off with the Russian prince and when Mr. Archer’s whereabouts remained for some days a m...

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...d terminating in a pointed chin like that of Mephistopheles,— a type which painters give to cats. This double resemblance was observable on the face o... ... sheathed in Northern woods carved and cut in open-work like the beautiful Russian chalets. The little antechamber formed by the landing and the well ... ... just as mountain torrents de- scribe curves which are beyond the skill of painters to con- vey, and accomplish giant deeds in displacing or smoothing... ... Legion of honor and major of a regiment of cavalry. Taken prisoner by the Russians he was sent, like so many others, to Siberia. He made the journey ... ...0 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER VII A POET OF THE ANGELIC SCHOOL ALL YOUNG GIRLS, romantic or otherwise, can imagine the impatience in which Modeste lived fo... ...ted, and wholly noble. I worship the beautiful, the ideal, with- out being romantic; though I have been, in my heart of hearts, in my dreams. But I re... ... woman, and which three months of close communion of souls now rendered as romantic as the most imaginative maiden could have wished. Every one, excep... ...a bullet in my face; I have crossed Siberia and been a prisoner there; the Russians flung me on a kibitka, and God knows what I suffered. I have seen ... ... only by the sea. “Butscha was right, God is the greatest of all landscape painters,” said Canalis, contemplating the view, which is unique among the ...

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...ion and negation—but nega- tively something, at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad-... ... irritated Birkin. They were all drinking champagne. Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the o... ...’m sure I should die—I’m sure I should.’ ‘I hope not,’ whispered the young Russian. ‘I’m sure I should, Maxim,’ she asseverated. 66 ‘Then one won’t c... ... uneasiness. ‘And are you afraid of nothing else, Pussum?’ asked the young Russian, in his quick, hushed, elegant manner. ‘Not weally,’ she said. ‘I a... ...nd then round the bushes came the tall form of Alexander Roddice, striding romantically like a Meredith hero who remembers Disraeli. He was cordial wi... ...ked lazily and pleasantly out on the park, that was so green and deserted, romantic, belonging to the past. He was thinking how lovely, how sure, how ... ...d that queens in themselves were a silliness. Yet she so wanted her little romantic occasion. ‘Shall I then?’ she asked. ‘Give Miss Brangwen some flow...

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...to; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the ... ...e all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the American... ... heart of an enchanted land, a land wastefully rich in tropical wonders, a romantic land where all the birds and flowers and animals were of the museu... ...racter with which we are not acquainted does not offend us—Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and the others—they have an interesting look, and we see b... ...just before Caesar Augustus was born, and was most poetic and touching and romantic in its feelings and aspects. It was a dream. It was dreamed by Cae... ...s, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ists, patr...

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...l of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters. As it was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, ... ... of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, disso... ...d his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding. In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the in- teresting pair, when the... ...presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in man... ... now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Gros... ...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...ter of an opera- girl. She had danced herself. She had been a model to the painters. She was brought up as became her mother’s daugh- ter. She drank g... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the...

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... you ask too much for this article?’ and he replied with the ques- tion, ‘Do you think you are obliged to buy it?’ However, these people are not impol... ...ed to generals and nobles. If you wish to see what abysses servil- ity can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shop- keeper in the characte... ...try to put your fin- ger on it, it will skip a thousand times its own length at one jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see where it lights. A great d... ...ith their alcoved outlooks upon the lovely and inspiriting water. They contain two or three hundred queer old pictures, by old Swiss mas- ters—old bos... ... there on the summit the guests did not wait to dress much, but seized a red bed blanket and sailed out arrayed like an Indian. This was good; this wo... ...ngen from the heights of the Bru”nig Pass. They said the view was marvelous, and that one who had seen it once could never forget it. They also spoke ... ...tant Alpine snow, when the sun is on it, which one recognizes as peculiar, and not familiar to the eye. The snow which one is accustomed to has a tint... ...ster hue of death. This was the third right hand found; therefore, all three of the lost men were accounted for, beyond cavil or question. Dr. Hamel w...

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...wy brows. I can pose as a Madonna with melancholy, swan-like neck, and the painters’ virgins will be nowhere; my place in heaven would be far above th... ...the father interviewed in 1814, declared that he had seen him taken by the Russians. Mme. de l’Estorade died of grief whilst a vain search was being m... ...des dividuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, i... ...land!” We both laughed; but I must explain the joke. The evening before, a Russian princess had told us an anecdote of this gentle- man. He had suffer... ...u tell me the reasons of your conduct, I have weaved together all sorts of romantic theories about you. “She has made a mere experiment in marriage,” ...

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...n the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic, for her eyes looked stra... ... out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at ma... ...might think he was a successful stock- broker, and not one of the greatest painters of the age. That’s what I like.” “There are a great many successfu... ...ave her donkey a sharp cut with a switch and started forward. The full and romantic career of Evelyn Murgatroyd is best hit off by her own words, “Cal... ...t to leap and swing. Look! How they mince!” “Have you seen those wonderful Russian dancers?” be- gan Mrs. Elliot. But Helen saw her partner coming and... ...o—that’s dreadful. Of farm labourers; no—not of the English at all, but of Russians and Chi- nese.” This train of thought did not satisfy her, and was... ...ther. I’d give all I have in the world to help on a revolution against the Russian government, and it’s bound to come.” She looked from Rachel to Tere...

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...d a fine sense of woods, and spring- time, and the open air. Our driver gave me a lecture by the way on Califor- nian trees – a thing I was much in ne... ...s it is, the tang of the earth in this green valley. So local, so quintessential is a wine, that it seems the very birds in the verandah might com- mu... ... what he called himself, but as soon as I set eyes on him, I knew it was or ought to be his name; I am sure it will be his name among the angels. Kelm... ...e a Hebrew. He had a projecting under lip, with which he continually smiled, or rather smirked. Mrs. Kelmar was a singularly kind woman; and the oldes... ...uch as would not have held a person’s hat on that blustering day. And with all these protestations of hurry, they proved irresponsible like children. ... ... against the greed and dishonesty of landlords. If it were fair for Cobden to buy up land from owners whom he thought unconscious of its proper value,...

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...then the Queen had a fancy to have the colour of the door altered; and the painters dabbed him over the mouth and eyes, and nearly choked him, as they... ..., he forgot about the rose, and of course it dropped out of his mouth. The romantic Princess instantly stooped and seized it. ‘Sweet rose!’ she ex- cl... ...r he could spell, read, and write the longest words now), the following:— ‘Romantic circumstance.—One of the most extraordinary adventures that we hav... ...“beautiful exceed- ingly.” Her history may be authentic, is certainly most romantic. ‘The personage calling herself Rosalba states that she was brough... ...he overthrow of King Padella’s army was so complete, that if they had been Russians you could not have wished them to be more utterly smashed and conf...

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...t with its frogs and olives clasping the waist, it seemed to him that this romantic-looking stranger, gifted with such advantages, insulted him by his... ...ary to talk; Spaniards have no public 46 A Start in Life conveyances; and Russians no roads. There is no amusement except in the lumbering diligences... ...his vanity was boiling in his veins; so when the famous Schinner allowed a romantic adventure to be guessed at in which the danger seemed as great as ... ...igris and his master, who then came for- ward. “You are, no doubt, the two painters whom Monsieur Grindot, the architect, told me to expect.” He whist... ...he architect, had received notice from him of the early arrival of the two painters sent down to finish the decorations of the chateau, the principal ... ...looking at Bridau co- quettishly. “Beauty, madame, is a sovereign whom all painters wor- ship; it has unlimited claims upon them.” “They are both char...